Your Journey To Lasting Change Starts Right Here………..
With me as your health coach, you can expect:
Lasting behavior change that becomes who you are
An accountability partner that is always by your side
Successes where you have failed in the past
A comprehensive, holistic approach and education
Your biggest cheerleader
If you have found your way here, it’s likely that you are navigating many challenges in your life. You are seeking support and solutions. As a Seasoned, Nationally Board Certified Women’s Health Coach, I will walk hand-in-hand with you to reach your goals.
Women seek my guidance for areas such as:
Weight Loss Struggles
You’re feeling hopeless because of temporary or nonexistent weight loss. You can hardly remember a time when you felt empowered and good about yourself. You want to eat well and prepare easy, nutritive meals but don’t know how and it feels overwhelming. You want to WANT TO exercise, after all, you have tried so, so many times before! You finally want to engage in movement that you actually crave doing and that makes you happy, you want it to finally becomes habit.
Mental Health
You feel anxiety, depression, exhaustion and overwhelm and they are interfering with your feeling fulfilled in your life and hopful for your future.
Gut Health Issues
You have daily struggles with your gut such as gas, fatigue, bloating, constipation, reflux., IBS…….your gut/microbiome needs to be healthy again! And you also want to address your poor gut health’s effect on your mental health.
Systemic Inflammation and Pain
You can no longer recognize yourself because your inflammation/pain now limits your ability to engage in you life as fully as you long to. You want to feel good so you can participate in a social life with friends and family, exercise and engage in hobbies that you use to love or want to try now.
Hormone Imbalances, including adrenal and thyroid imbalances
You feel exhausted, heavy, moody, your skin doesn’t look good and you have sleep problems.
You’ve gone to the doctor and she told you that you have high cholesterol, that you are prediabetic or diabetic
You know this is serious, and you are at a total loss about what you are going to do now to decrease those numbers on the report that just scared you.
And any other of the myriad possibilities of areas in your life where you feel you need guidance, support, and information in order to have a more healthy, fit, balanced and vibrant life.
Understanding your struggles, I meet you exactly where you are on this very day since you are as unique as your fingerprint. Together we will set small, attainable goals. This will snowball into lasting behavior change. It will shape who you become moving forward in your life.
Through our work together you will thrive and not just survive. It is time to stop clawing just to stay at the surface of the water. Let’s begin.
What women are saying…….
Jane C, 52, Homemaker
Raleigh, North Carolina
“Jen is one of the most remarkable women I have ever met, and I knew that right away when I met her. She is charismatic and cares deeply about people and helping them improve their lives. When I started working with Jen, I was nervous about implementing changes when I hadn’t been successful with lots of different “diets” in the past. Her program isn’t a diet- they are simple changes made gradually throughout working with her that stick with you for a lifetime! I was making HUGE changes in small steps to improve all aspects of my life.”
- Kristy Yutzy, Age 29
Holistic Health Care Manager
Asheville, NC
“Each and every step of the way I was completely supported by Jennifer. She lovingly emailed me in between sessions to check in with me, and gave me so many reasons to smile and feel good about the new me. She gives each client 110% and I am not sure how she does it. She is my cheerleader, my counselor, my friend and the most knowledgable person on the planet about the power of food to heal and nourish. Thank you Jennifer for this incredible journey. Thanks to you, my feet are firmly on a path to sublime health!”
- Carole Shoaf, Age 66
Violin Teacher
Asheville, NC
“Jennifer is an expert in all things pertaining to nutrition and natural healing. I learned so much about how the food I eat, when I eat and how I eat affects my overall health and happiness. In the six months I was with Jennifer and with all that I have learned and implemented throughout my program, my inflammation and stiffness in my joints all but disappeared, my blood sugars have stabilized and I am now able to enjoy my daughter and my life again!! I can not recommend her enough if you want a major change in your health and happiness.”
-Angie Sigl., 40
Voice teacher
Chapel Hill, NC
We owe it to ourselves to strive for a life where we feel healthy in our minds and bodies, and joyful in our spirits.
Areas of Expertise
Releasing
Your Weight
(For Good!)
While we work together you will learn a different, and healthy, way of engaging with food consciously, and you will begin to identify the patterns that don’t serve you.
Decreasing Your Anxiety and Depression
My multi-pronged, comprehensive approach proves effective in helping you to get your life back from these struggles- the world’s largest pandemic.
Improving
Your Gut
Health
Beyond bloating, constipation, and IBS, healing your gut improves other ailments that you never would’ve thought stemmed from poor gut health.
Increasing
Your Energy
and Vitality
While people most often relate decreased vitality and energy to food, water and movement, we will also explore the balance in your life and health of your spirit.
Services Offered:
6-Month Break Your
Habits Program
Finally break your habits for good! Your customized, 6-month Break Your Habits Coaching Program includes 1-30 minute coaching session per week for 24 weeks.
3-Month New
Beginnings Program
There are beautiful New Beginnings ahead for you! Your customized, 3-Month New Beginnings Coaching Program includes 1-30-minute coaching session per week for 12 weeks.
Group
Wellness Talks
Soar together in health! My Group Wellness talks include updated information on foundational health. I have many prepared topics, but can give your talk of choice!
Individual Health
Coaching Session
Let’s journey together! These one hour Coaching Sessions work well if you are self-motivated and don’t need the accountability piece between sessions but would like some direction with a specific goal in mind.
Grocery Store Visits
Let’s go shopping! I will accompany you to the grocery store of your choice, where you’ll learn how to shop for and prepare simple, nutritious and, most importantly, delicious meals in no time at all!
About me:
I’m a very committed, compassionate Nationally Board Certified Integrative Health Coach through NBC-HWC, Occupational Therapist, and advocate for clean, healthy living. Through my studies and understanding of true foundational wellness, combined with more than 30 years of collective professional and personal experiences, I work from an expansive lens. This expansive lens helps me to truly understand you and how to help you to set and achieve your goals so that these new goals become who you are moving forward in your life. I meet you exactly where you are in order to best serve you in reaching the dreams you have for yourself.
You and your needs are the most important part of my health coaching practice and the reason I do what I do. My mission is to help guide you and to be both your accountability partner, the catalyst to your lasting behavior change, and your very best advocate and cheerleader so that you can finally feel like you are becoming the thriving version of yourself that you deserve to be, and so that you can finally look and feel amazing. We do this, together, by setting small, graded, achievable goals that make a huge difference in how you feel, look, and engage in your life.
I understand women completely and thoroughly and will listen intently to your past, learn about what your barriers to success have been, and I will feel your joy while we speak about the dreams and goals that you have for yourself. Additionally, as a mom and Pediatric Occupational Therapist, I understand that you are only as happy and healthy as your children, so if you desire, I am also here to help to guide you in helping your family thrive as well.
It is time to thrive. Let’s begin.
My Path
For as long as I can remember, I have always been extremely impassioned by, and worked in, both allopathic and integrative medicine. This has always been an integral part of my life and there has never been a separation between who I am and what I do. Continually pushing myself to learn, grow and evolve as a health care worker and as a coach has always been my priority and my commitment to myself adn to you.
When I was 41 years old, I was in a major car accident and experienced brain trauma. While I did lose two of my senses, my family was also told it was quite possible that I would be cognitively impaired for the rest of my life. But, as is often the case, this simply wasn’t true. I consider myself very lucky because as soon as I was able, I took the situation into my own hands by drawing from my knowledge of foundational health and healing. After all, I knew in my heart that given the right circumstances all of our bodies want to regain balance and to heal. I am eternally grateful mine did……..yours can too.
Because of these personal challenges, as well as the many ill loved ones and clients over the years who turned to me for guidance with foundational imbalances (cancer, neurological lyme disease, other autoimmune diseases, and more), I became even more doggedly determined to understand the root causes of dis-ease states and how to help facilitate helping to bring balance to our bodies again.
Amongst the greatest joys in my life is empowering you to heal in order to lead a vibrant, abundantly healthy, and peaceful life. In my current practice, I guide you to reach the health dreams that YOU set for yourself (just as I did!) by setting small and achievable goals that make a huge difference in how you look and feel. Reaching these goals will empower you to feel successful and proud of yourself.
I understand women, completely and thoroughly. I understand our struggles to balance our lives and how too much of the time we are nourishing ourselves too little, and giving so much that our lives often feel completely unbalanced and unfulfilling.
Because of this, I meet you exactly where you are on this very day and then we dig in and get to work! Every single one of us has at least one area of our health that needs extra attention in order to live a better life. We all can benefit from an accountability partner. We owe it to ourselves to strive for a life where we feel healthy in our minds and bodies and joyful in our spirits.
You have got this. You may not think you do, but you do!
My Education and Certifications
Nationally Board Certified Health Coach through NBC-HWC
Institute of Integrative Nutrition: Certificate in Integrative Health Coaching
Institute of Integrative Nutrition: Advanced Practicum Certificate in Integrative Health Coaching
American Association of Drugless Practitioners: Commission on Certification
Columbia University: Master of Science in Occupational Therapy
University of Maryland: Bachelor of Science in Exercise Physiology
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